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Democrats must reach across the diploma divide
By Will Marshall, President of the Progressive Policy Institute
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Having lost the white working class decades ago, Democrats now see erosion ([link removed]) in their support among Hispanic and even Black voters without college degrees. It’s a mortifying turn of events for a party that historically has defined its mission as standing up for working families.

It’s also the biggest threat to the party’s ability to enlarge its tenuous governing majority and prevent the Trump-mesmerized Republicans from taking power. If Democrats don’t find a way to do better among the two-thirds of registered voters who don’t graduate from college, even superhuman efforts to “mobilize the base” won’t save them.

Party pollsters spend millions trying to divine the mysteries of working-class alienation. But it’s not that complicated.

Workers who live paycheck to paycheck don’t think the party establishment listens to them or sympathizes with their travails and aspirations. Instead, Democrats in Washington seem more attentive to the priorities of a rarified class of progressive activists, political operatives and interest groups, supported by like-minded donors, foundations, academics and media organs.

Today’s fixation on cancelling student debt is a classic example. Left-leaning activists are pressing hard for it, Sens. Chuck Schumer ([link removed]) (D-N.Y.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) endorse it and President Biden says he’s looking into it.

Yet there’s no public groundswell for it — the issue doesn’t even register when voters are asked to name their top concerns. Only 13 percent of Americans ([link removed]) have federal student debt. For highly educated urban professionals, debt relief may seem like an urgent imperative; from a blue-collar perspective, it looks like more self-dealing among the nation’s political elites.
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Paul Bledsoe, PPI's Strategic Advisor: How Europe's energy plan affects U.S. gas, offshore wind
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Ed Gresser, PPI's Vice President and Director for Trade and Global Markets: Solar Power Installation in the U.S. is Suddenly Slowing Down
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Will Marshall, PPI's Founder and President: Progressive challenger in Texas primary marks test of Democrats' leftward shift
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Ben Ritz, Director of the Center for Funding America's Future: Democrats' 'Greedflation' Claims Run Up Against Scant Evidence
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Jordan Shapiro, PPI's Economic and Data Policy Analyst: Mobile IDs Would Serve Americans Better
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NEW PPI REPORT:

Why Digital Privacy Is So Complicated
By Jordan Shapiro, PPI's Economic and Data Policy Analyst

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The exact definition of digital privacy is complex, imperfectly aligned with typical understandings of privacy in an analog context. Historically, the vast majority of human actions and interactions existed beyond the scope of surveillance. Today, it’s nearly impossible to go about our daily lives without digital tools that facilitate modern life, but also collect data about individuals. When this growing flood of data is linked to an individual it is called “personal identifying information” (PII), the centerpiece of the debate over digital privacy.

The discussion of digital privacy is complicated precisely because it operates on three distinct but interrelated levels. First, privacy’s social and legal dimensions depend on whether individuals, corporations, or governments are assumed to hold primary rights to personal data collected about those individuals. In Europe, for example, the individual holds primary rights over their data, while in China, the state takes precedence.

The second level of the privacy discussion addresses data use and the technical protection and security of personal information to safeguard it from unwanted intrusion or theft while allowing individuals transparent access to their data. These complicated technical issues arise no matter privacy’s social and legal structure.

The third level of the privacy debate deals with the economics of PII. How does the chosen privacy model interact with innovation and growth? And how can it be assured that individuals get the appropriate benefits from their data?

This paper will lay out the privacy models of the United States, Europe, and China, with smaller sections on the United Kingdom, Canada, and India. For each area, we will discuss the social and legal structure, the technical design of security and transparency, and the economic implications of privacy and innovation. This paper sets out a framework for PPI’s ongoing privacy work. It lays the groundwork for future discussions of privacy legislation in the United States.
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RAS REPORTS:

Backlash Against the U.S. Department of Education

Last week was National Charter Schools Week, and instead of celebrating the quality education that public charters provide to millions of students, the Department of Education is working to undermine the ability of these schools to function.
As hundreds of parents and students descended on Washington to make their voices heard, PPI's Reinventing America's Schools Co-Director Tressa Pankovits went to the White House to hear from some of these advocates. Tressa recaps her conversations on the latest episode of RAS Reports.

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THE NEOLIBERAL PODCAST:

What is Modern Neoliberalism ft. Cardiff Garcia & The New Bazaar

This week's episode is a joint episode with The New Bazaar Podcast. The New Bazaar is a podcast hosted by Cardiff Garcia (formerly of NPR's The Indicator) that discusses topics in economics, policy and politics. Cardiff interviewed Jeremiah for an episode of The New Bazaar on modern neoliberalism and asks the following questions: Where did we come from? What do we believe? Are we as bad as the critics say?

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